From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:54:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 16616 invoked from network); 13 Aug 1997 12:18:31 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 13 Aug 1997 12:18:31 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <8.35795C47@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:18:17 +0100 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 08:17:00 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: The ckafybarja reborn X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 2633 Lines: 46 Message-ID: <1BOQFIGs0kP.A.Qt.Z20kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> John Hodges (and Chris in response) appear to have kicked off our attempt to revitalized the long-idle ckafybarja project in a new form. The original idea was to set a common fictional setting that Lojbanists could individually orcollectively use as a basis for writing in the language. That aspect of the project remains. However, at LogFest it was decided that we need a more lively, shorter term and less formal interchange between Lojbanists, in the manner of IRC or perhaps the conversations between Jorge Lllambias and Goran Topic and others that graced this list a couple of years ago. As such, we are encouraging any and all Lojbanists to write daily or at least once a week in Lojban, and to post that writing to the list. This writing can be actual correspondence with another poster, can be a diary-like description of something that happened (as John did with his posting on looking for a certain celestial event), or can even be a fictional occurence possibly using the ckafybarja as a setting. For the latter we envision that people woulduse themselves or a created persona who would walk in to the ckafybarja and start talking to the other patrons there who might be listening ( or just walk in and describe yourself and let someone else initiate the conversation if you prefer). For the latter, we suggest that subject lines be tagged with "ckafybarja:" or some short but obvious abbreviation. The ground rules of these writings are that in most cases they should be SHORT - under 8 sentences was suggested, and even 1-3 sentences would be excellent for most people. The idea is to make it easy for even new Lojbanists to set a target to write such an amount on a regular basis, and also that they not feel intimidated by the size of a chunk of Lojban that they need to read in order to respond. The other major grounfd rule is that we try to avoid correcting grammar and vocabulary in the context of the writings. It is too easy on this list, we have found, to get the critiques of text to bog down into long technical discussions. These are fine, in or out of Lojban, buyt should be marked as distinct from ckafybarja postings so that people can skip them if the wish. more later. Gotta meet the printer representative. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/"